Are you a pessimist or a fatalist....goals,death,destiny,aspirations,life..

Are you a pessimist or a fatalist?

Both types of person have a limited and distorted view of the universe and of human existence.

They allow themselves to be subject to circumstance and because they have nowhere to go, they never reach their goals.

The pessimist believes that all is wrong with the world. Why aim for anything good and be disappointed?
Anyway, death ends all, so why bother?

The fatalist regards the world as a big machine and all human beings are being turned out from it as a part of its products. We are in the clutch of blind destiny, neither good nor bad and we may as well submit to what destiny has in store for us.
Why go after things and still not get them in the end? We shall get all that is coming to us anyway.

Both views do not nurture any aspirations, only nullify them, and produce a paralysis of despair.
The only remedy for them is to get a more profound view of the universe. They need to develop a positive, constructive philosophy on life.
Some of the great prophets and poets have lived for the basis of humanity and see the universe as a rational place based on law.
Personality is seen as being a precious thing to be developed and a Co-operative effort is part of a constant, ever advancing development towards making this world a better place to live.

All personal aims become valid and worthwhile when we develop this positive attitude towards life.

It becomes the source of all aspirations.

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Confidence and the mind!

“I am not confident enough to achieve my goal!”

Is this something that you say to yourself, when you feel worried over the goal that you want to achieve?

Ask yourself, when you feel a lack of confidence in your aim, “Why did I think about this goal in the first place.” There must have been slight grounds for some belief in your future dreams, unless it was a very unobtainable thought or daydream.
If you feel, however, that you might be able to achieve your dreams through proper training or experience, then start it and build up your confidence by making sufficient preparations. Stop talking about, not having enough confidence and just go out there and do it.

If you feel that you still cannot do this, then drop the aim and take another more suitable one that you can follow with courage!

The trouble with most people who lack confidence is that they fail to take the action recommended and worry themselves stupid over the problem. They turn the problem over in their minds, until they become sick and tired.
They focus in the wrong direction and on the wrong object, namely themselves instead of outwards, towards their goal.
Worse still, is that their focus is on their own weaknesses and defects, instead of their abilities and their past successes.

The answer is to turn your attention to the object ahead of you and focus on the activities that will bring you step by step to achieve your aims.
You have to go after your cake, before you can eat it!

Think of you aim as the best cure for lack of confidence. Let it possess and inspire you. Think of all that it will mean to you and your family if you go through with it.


If something does go wrong, you can still respect yourself and others will respect you. You will have also got some experience, which will help you for the next effort.

Persistent confidence and effort will eventually win out and you will achieve your dream.

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Dig deep and focus....energy, goals, mind, patience, responsibility, reward, success?

Have you got a tremendous amount of energy but soon fizzle out to nothing? Can you be likened to a beautiful firework that starts out with a tremendous amount of energy and then fizzles until nothing is left?
Have you tried one thing after another and then tire of it when the novelty wears off?

The only way to remedy this is to find out what is the cause of the trouble.

One question to ask is whether you have ever taken your job seriously enough.

Maybe you have been shallow in your approach and have not taken the interest deep enough to keep you doing it.
Maybe you have only just scratched the surface. Maybe you have no desire to become a master at what you do, nor do you have any ambition to move higher in this position.

It is no wonder that your interest peters out once the novelty wears off, or the new friendships with your fellow workers dwindle.

Another issue could be that you have failed to connect your work with your other interests in life, so you lose all the motivation to continue making a success out of your job.

The person who wants a new home, needs a settled financial income in order to achieve that goal. Maybe you are as fickle in your social interests as you are in your business life. Can you be counted upon to get involved in a committee or group and take on some responsibility?
The person who does not accomplished anything, or does not keep steadily to any line of business, is the person that will not be taken seriously for any social responsibility.

The fact is that whenever there is a task that demands patience, persistent energy, or heavier responsibility in planning and problem solving, then are you ready to lie down and quit?

Are you like the runner who gives up before he gets his second wind?

The remedy has already been mentioned. You need to dig deeper into your work. You will discover lots more fundamental interests and new openings will open up in different areas. You might even discover that you want to strive for some higher position.

Maybe a new position will open up or a new department. You will gain a new respect for yourself, because you have found an attitude of responsibility, stability, and ambition towards your job.
The joy of successful achievement will eventually be your reward.

WHAT DOES LIFE MEAN TO YOU? ...success, reward, goals, patience, energy, responsibility, mind...

Are you stuck in a Rut...Aims,Change, Goals, Relationships, Mind?

Most of us, as we travel through life have acquired set beliefs and ideas about ourselves, about our jobs, our religion, and perhaps our morals.

When we acquire a set belief about something, this is normally when our mental development has stopped. Our minds become closed to any new ideas on the subject and we refuse to be changed or modified.

Although we may regard ourselves as being open minded, most of us can become fixed and narrow minded in our views. Unconsciously we have closed the doors of reason.

When a growth is so gradual that we do not realise it is happening, this form of a self-arrested development is the most difficult to give up.
When we are accused of, being narrow minded we strenuously deny it and object to the implications that we are not open minded.

Examples of this can be the salesperson who is fixated on having to achieve certain levels of sales. The worker who would have no desire to go any further in his job, because he feels secure. The person that runs a factory is content to go on running his factory exactly the same way as he has always run it.

Another example used to be the housewife who marries and places herself at a expected vocational level and remains throughout her life a fixated house wife. Luckily lots of women have been liberated from this role and tries to manage and juggle careers and children. I feel this statement is certainly a comment for future debate!

There are many other examples of people stuck in ruts, unhappy in their job, relationship and situations, but are too afraid to move on.

What is important is your attitude towards your work, and the effect it has on your entire mental life.

This is why it is so important to find your aim or goal in life. The problem is that it is usually this aim that is so difficult to establish and these difficulties will be covered next time.

WHAT IS YOUR TASTE, TALENT OR ABILITY? ...Mind, Relationships, Change, Aims,

Goals, Beliefs

What is your Dream....Goals,Mind, Secret, Solution,Success?

No matter what your circumstances are, there is a solution or perhaps many solutions to your problem.

Some people blame what is not right in their lives and think they are “victims of circumstances”. While it is true that a combination of unforeseen and unforeseeable might create difficult problems, there is always a way out.

The man who lets outside influences control him becomes a ‘yes’ man who is the imitator and he never formulates his own opinion. Consequently, he builds up a set of judgements formulated by his environment. But he does not know what else to do.

The secret to owning your own life is to find out what is the nature and source of your various wants.

• How you can evaluate them?
• What you can do to nurture the ones that are desirable and get rid of the ones that do you no good?
• How you can then transform them into desirable aims?

The first goal is to list your deficiencies, try to recognise them, in order for you to overcome them. Nearly everyone has a struggle with something.

Nothing worthwhile is ever gained without effort. The most important thing is your mental attitude.

Approach your goals with the confidence of success and you can achieve anything.

ARE YOU STUCK IN A RUT? ...Mind,Dream, Goals, Secret, Solution,Success

What is Time..Meditation,Stress,Pressure,Sleep?

I have been meaning to write another blog but the electricity went off for over 36 hours and time has flown by so quickly it is now Tuesday. The subject is the concept of time and my perceived perspective on it.

What is Time?

For most people, I guess it is just a measurement to determine what they do in a set day. Why does time go by so quickly or does it?

Is it because people’s lives are full of deadlines or goals that they must achieve within a certain period.

They must get up, go to work and at the end of a working week, they bring home a wage so that they can pay their bills, mortgages, school fees, and entertainment costs.

I have a theory that time has indeed speeded up and what we perceive as 24 hours is no longer 24 hours. It is more like 12 hours. I also believe that it is to make people evaluate what they do in a day and how important it is to that person.

For me I often ask myself, do I really need to do a certain thing, or do I really want to spend my time with a particular person. Is it important in the great scheme of things?

Having meditated for the last 30 years I often have the experience of being surprised at how long my meditations can last. Often I find it difficult to believe that an hour has gone by so quickly, when I feel I have only been in meditation for a short space of time.
It is as if time has stood still within the meditation.

I have only had a couple of experiences when I have felt time has stood still and I have looked at the clock and wondered how I have managed to achieve so much in the time period.
The clock has often only ticked away a few minutes.

Meditation is a wonderful thing and if people could find the time to be still and go within then they would find a place that is free of time and the pressures of everyday life.

It has been proven that 20 minutes meditation is like 3 or 4 hours of sleep.

If time is so, precious and you do not feel that you have enough of it, ask yourself whether you are really spending quality time doing what you really need to do.

On the other hand, could you spend that valuable time doing something else or being with someone that you truly love?

LIVE THE MOMENT?........Meditation, Goals, Pressure, Stress, Time, Sleep?